Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!

Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

The first time I was in this state recruiting, that's when I knew I wanted to be a Gator, because I saw the influence and saw what it's all about. This goes a long time.

That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference?

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

[Ronald] Reagan talked to people across the world and he was very successful in communicating and treating people with dignity and respect, but putting America first in every single we do.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.